Splash Screen Revisited

[Joshua Facemyer / Impressus Art]

Thanks for your reply.

I actually updated it before you sent this email to include other
currencies, having read the discussion more thoroughly.

I guess what I want to ask is, are you interested in any further
development of this splash screen and other logo stuff by me?  If so,
I'll be glad to do so, and work to make it something that really fits. 
Otherwise, I'll work on other things.

Just let me know, and if so I'll post some updates for discussion to the
list.

JF

Christian Stimming wrote:
> Am Samstag, 6. Mai 2006 08:40 schrieb Joshua Facemyer / Impressus Art:
>   
>> I was looking on the wiki for things to help with and I saw art as one
>> of the options.
>>
>> I wondered what art needs work.
>>
>> I've read the previous comments about splash screens, and thought I'd
>> offer one.
>>
>> www.impressusart.com/download/gnucash_splash.png
>>
>> It's in keeping with the current one's design, but different.
>>     
>
> Interesting. Thanks a lot for this new proposal. However, as Chris already has 
> pointed out, there are some suboptimum things here: Just as Chris, I first 
> thought this pen to be a knife... it should be much more clear that this is a 
> pen. Perhaps more something like a stylograph. 
>
> Also, although your "logo" looks very nice, you've just encoutered once again 
> the ever-returning internationalization vs. currency symbol issue. In other 
> words, the '$' simply is only the currency symbol for USD and *not* for 
> currencies in general or money in general. Gnucash, on the other hand, is 
> specifically targeted towards any currencies and not at all limited to or 
> emphasizing USD currency. This means any kind of logo and/or splash screen 
> *must not* use USD as a single/predominant currency. Or Euro, or Yen, or 
> Pound, for that matter... Just as a general rule: If it should be truly 
> international, don't use a single currency symbol.
>
> And something that I think can still be improved for the "main part" of your 
> splash screen picture: You don't show anything that is particular to gnucash 
> in any way. That's something that was done well in the 1.8 splash screen: It 
> contained the pie charts as a representative for the diagrams, and an account 
> register. Perhaps a new splash screen should still try to include those two 
> elements somewhere.
>
> Thank you very much for your contribution in any case.
>
> Regards,
>
> Christian
>